news conference

10:56: New Crackdown looks good. Let’s hope it’s better than 2. It’s great that Dave Jones, the original creator, is doing it.

10:51: Hideki Kamiya. So awesome. The dragon kinda looks like the dragon from HOw to Train your Dragon. Scalebound. You don’t get much from the trailer other than there’s a guy with a sword and he rides a dragon.

10:46: Tom Clancy’s The Division. Every time I see a Tom Clancy game, I realize Ubisoft bought his name a long time ago. I always like the visual style of Ubisoft games. SO smart. Damn, the game looks great. It kind reminds me of a next-gen SOCOM that I always wanted. And New Content will appear first on Xbox One.

10:43 Bringing back what game. It looks pretty crazy. Phantom Dust.

10:39: Witcher 3 is probably the most gorgeous game this generation so far. The combat looks faster and more fluid. Interesting how random encounters can open up new benefits. By dispatching those bandits, Geralt can return to that herablist and get stuff. Now, he continuees his Griffin hunt.

10:36: At first, I thought the Tomb Raider trailer was a Quantic Dreams game. Then I realized they usually work on PlayStation. Then I suddenly realized it was Lara and everything made sense. What a great trailer. I’m hyped.

10:30: Early 2015 game. PlayDead studios. It looks like a crazy dystopia starring a little boy. Everyone is going to a windowed room. It’s called Inside.

10:22: They’re showing Halo 5 now. It sounds like Keith David is narrating the trailer. Play the entire Master Chief Saga with Halo: The Master Chief Collection. There’s a unified interface. Halo 2, probably the best game in the series, is getting the anniversary treatment. The Halo 2 multiplayer is coming back as well exactly as it appeared in the past. It’s coming Nov. 11. More than 100 multiplayer maps. All run in the original engines. All running in 1080p and 60fps. It ships with a 4,000 Gamerscore. Good news if you’re into that thing.

Halo Nightfall is included. It includes a pivotal new character and the Halo 5: Guardians beta.

10:18: It looks Conker is coming to Project Spark. Does that mean the game is no longer safe for kids. Remember, his last game wasn’t exactly family-friendly.

10:08: Fable Legends is shown. It starts off at Grey Lodge. The town is growing and full of heroes you team up with such as Winter (mage), Rook(a hero of skill), Ulga(hero of strength). It looks like there’s four-player co-op multiplayer. You can be the villain in Halo. He controls the game from above. Almost like a dungeon master. Ending depends on who wins. Villains or heroes can win.

10:00 Dance Central Spotlight coming as a downloadable title. It looks like it’ll be built around downloadable content. It’s coming at fall.

10:06: That Dead Rising 3 add-on pack trailer was hilarious. There’s another reason to go back with all that Capcom cosplay and powers.

The Xbox 360 news conference at E3 is over, and the company showed off a couple of games that stood out. For me, Resident Evil 6 looked the best out of the bunch. From what I’ve seen in the gameplay, it seems as though the developer finally updated the controls from the Resident Evil 4 scheme that has served the series since the GameCube days. Yes, it’s been that long. The Tomb Raider gameplay demo looked solid. If it proves one thing, it’s that a bow and arrow is the weapon of choice for female protagonists. I’m looking at you Hunger Games and Brave.

But the most surprising game of the presser was South Park: The Stick of Truth. From the clips shown (Hello, Jesus with a machine gun.), it looks like it captured the humor of the series. Afterward, THQ released more details about the game after the conference. It’s coming out March 5, 2013. There’s also a preorder bonus called The Good Time With Weapons Pack that includes the Bulrog Chicken Attack, Cartman’s Kick-Ass Sai and a Samurai Costume. For Xbox 360 fans, THQ will also offer up a special Mysterion Superhero Pack that includes a Superhero Costume, Mysterion’s Special Attack and the Dagger of Cthulhu. One of the more interesting features that’s going to be included in the Xbox 360 version is the ability to taunt in-game character via Kinect. They and I probably mean Cartman apparently talk back. Lastly, the Xbox 360 will have South Park downloadable episodes first.